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Fungalpedia – Note 271, Alloanthostomella   Alloanthostomella Daranag., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde Citation when using this entry: Perera et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, genera described in 2016. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1 Classification: Incertae sedis, Xylariales, Xylariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi Daranagama et al. (2016) established the monotypic genus Alloanthostomella to accommodate Anthostomella rubicola, based on the phylogenetic analysis of ITS, LSU, rpb2 and tub2 molecular markers. The recognition of A. rubicola as a separate genus by Daranagama et al. (2016) was not supported by the analyses by Voglmayr et al. (2018), as it was clustered within the Anthostomella clade. Daranagama et al. (2018) treated Alloanthostomella in Hypoxylaceae owing to its close phylogenetic affinity to core hypoxyloid species. However, the genus was transferred to Xylariales incertae sedis by Samarakoon et al. (2022) based [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 361, Alloconiothyrium   Alloconiothyrium Verkley, Göker & Stielow Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1           Classification: Didymosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. The monotypic genus Alloconiothyrium (Didymosphaeriaceae) was established by Verkley et al. (2014) with the type species Alloconiothyrium aptrootii. To date, only three species have been accepted in Alloconiothyrium, including the type species, and these species have been isolated from different substrates. Alloconiothyrium aptrootii was isolated from a soil sample, A. camelliae was isolated from the leaves of Camellia sinensis, and A. encephalarti was isolated from Encephalartos sp. (Zamiaceae) (Verkley et al. 2014, Crous et al. 2019, Ariyawansa et al. 2020). The asexual morph of Alloconiothyrium was characterized by pycnidial or eustromatic conidiomata, holoblastic, annellidic conidiogenous cells, and olivaceous-brown and irregular outline, surface roughened conidia, globose, think-walled, brown chlamydospores (Verkley et al. 2014). Type species: Alloconiothyrium aptrootii Verkley, Göker & Stielow Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Alloconiothyrium [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 182, Allodiatrype   Allodiatrype Konta & K.D. Hyde   Citation when using this entry: Li et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia.  Xylariomycetidae.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Diatrypaceae, Xylariales, Xylariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi In 2020, Konta et al. (2020) proposed Allodiatrype to include A. arengae as its type species. Allodiatrype was discovered as a saprobe, thriving on the petiole of Arenga pinnata (Arecaceae) in the Phang-Nga Province of Thailand. Allodiatrype is characterized by aggregated, brown, globose to sub-globose, ostiolate ascomata; cylindrical, unitunicate, with cylindrical, with J-, 8-spored asci with apical ring; seriate, allantoid, hyaline becoming yellowish, unicellular ascospores with small fat globules at each end (Konta et al. 2020). Allodiatrype is similar to Diatrype species, with globose to subglobose ascomata, hyaline asci, ellipsoidal to cylindrical or elongate-allantoid, and aseptate ascospores. Nevertheless, Allodiatrype contains 1-10 ascomata immersed in a single stroma, with or without a black stromatic area. On [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 126 Allophoma   Allophoma Qian Chen & L. Cai Citation when using this entry: Aumentado et al. in prep – Fungalpedia, plant pathogens. Mycosphere.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina, Dothideomycetes, Pleosporomycetidae, Pleosporales, Didymellaceae Allophoma was recognized by Chen et al. (2015) with A. tropica as the type species based on morphological characteristics and phylogenetic studies. Allophoma was introduced to encompass a novel species and five species previously included in Phoma with various shaped conidia (Chen et al. 2015). There are 14 established species identified through morpho-molecular data analysis employing genetic markers such as the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and the 28S large ribosomal subunit RNA (LSU) gene and protein-coding genes: beta-tubulin (β-tub), and RNA polymerase II second largest subunit (rpb2) gene regions (Chen et al. 2015, 2017, Valenzuela-Lopez et al. 2018, Babaahmadi et al. 2018, Marin-Felix et al. 2019, Jayasiri et [...]

  Fungalpedia – Note 400, Alnecium   Alnecium Voglmayr & Jaklitsch  Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification:  Incertae sedis, Diaporthales, Diaporthomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi Alnecium was established as a monotypic genus within the Gnomoniaceae by Voglmayr and Jaklitsch (2014), with A. auctum designated as its type species. The classification of Alnecium auctum has varied across different genera over the years, indicating significant uncertainty regarding its generic affiliation (Voglmayr & Jaklitsch 2014). Historical classifications by Petrak (1923) and Barr (1978) placed Alnecium auctum within Prosthecium, whereas Wehmeyer (1941) associated it with Melanconis. Its phylogenetic assignment to Gnomoniaceae was unexpected, given that no prior mycologist has linked it to a genus considered part of this family. The Gnomoniaceae family predominantly comprises members that colonize non-woody materials, [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 115 Alveariospora   Alveariospora Meir. Silva, R.F. Castañeda, O.L. Pereira & R.W. Barreto Citation: Madagammana et al., in prep – Fungalpedia, genera described in 2012. Mycosphere. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1 Alveariospora was introduced by Silva et al. (2012) with A. distoseptata as the type species. Alveariospora is an asexual genus that is listed under Ascomycota genera incertae sedis (Wijayawardene et al. 2022). This genus was introduced using only morphology. Therefore, new isolates and sequence data are required to confirm the phylogenetic position of this genus. Alveariospora is characterized by single, unbranched, septate, brown, or olivaceous conidiophores, muriform, dictyosporous, distoseptate, verruculose conidia from large, thickened, dark washer-like conidiogenous loci (Silva et al. 2012). Morphologically, Alveariospora is similar to Briansuttonia, Dictyospiropes, and Veracruzomyces (Silva et al. 2012). However, Briansuttonia differs from Alveariospora by having monotretic, terminal, determinate, or indeterminate cells that are [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 429, Amundsenia   Amundsenia Søchting, Garrido-Ben., Arup & Frödén  Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, extreme-tolerant fungi. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Teloschistaceae, Teloschistales, Lecanoromycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Amundsenia was introduced by Søchting et al. (2014), with Amundsenia austrocontinentalis as the type species. Based on the phylogeny of Søchting et al. (2014), this genus represents a monophyletic clade within Xanthorioideae. This genus is characterized by saxicolous thallus with crustose, orange; sparse apothecia, dispersed, orange and polardiblastic spores with small and short spore septum while, apothecia and thalli contain parietin (dominant) and small proportions of teloschistin, fallacinal, parietinic acid and emodin (Chemosyndrome A of Søchting (1997) (Søchting et al. 2014). Recently, only Amundsenia approximata has been found in the Arctic region, whereas  A. austrocontinentalis [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 520, Amycosphaerella   Amycosphaerella Quaedvl. & Crous Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Fungal pathogens. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Mycosphaerellaceae, Mycosphaerellales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Based on DNA sequence and morphology analyses, Quaedvlieg et al. (2014) introduced Amycosphaerella within Mycosphaerellaceae, Mycosphaerellales, and Dothideomycetidae in Dothideomycetes with the type species Amycosphaerella africana (described from leaf spots). Morphologically, Amycosphaerella members are similar to Mycosphaerella species but distinct in that they do not produce a Ramularia asexual morph. Amycosphaerella is characterized by solitary, globose, subepidermal ascomata, obovoid to broadly ellipsoidal, straight or incurved asci, hyaline, bi- to triseriate, overlapping, fusoid-ellipsoidal with obtuse ends, straight, medianly 1-septate, guttulate ascospores (Quaedvlieg et al. 2014). Currently, two species accepted in this genus (A. africana and A. keniensis) were described from leaves [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 384, Anabahusakala   Anabahusakala Carmo, J.S. Monteiro, Gusmão & R.F. Castañeda Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1           Classification: Pezizaceae, Pezizales, Pezizomycetidae, Pezizomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Anabahusakala was established by do Carmo et al. (2014) to accommodate the type species Anabahusakala amapensis based on morphological studies. Anabahusakala is characterized by differentiated robust dark brown conidiophores, macronematous, mononematous, branched, septate, pigmented and branch irregularly towards the apex; hyphae holothallic conidiogenous, pigmented; conidial secession schizolytic; thallicarthric conidia, catenulate, cylindrical, sub-oblong, Y-shaped to irregular, and pale brown to brown, septate, formed by disarticulation of the conidiogenous hyphae (do Carmo et al. 2014). No other species have been introduced to Anabahusakala, which remains monotypic. In addition, no sequences are available in this genus, and a [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 401, Anacraspedodidymum   Anacraspedodidymum C.R. Silva, R.F. Castañeda & Gusmão Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1          Classification: Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Anacraspedodidymum was established by Silva et al. (2014), with Anacraspedodidymum aquaticum designated as its type species. They introduced this genus based on morphological characteristics and proposed a new combination, Anacraspedodidymum hyalosporum, to accommodate a species previously known as Craspedodidymum hyalosporum. Zheng et al. (2021) introduced Anacraspedodidymum submersum, which is morphologically similar to A. aquaticum and A. hyalosporum, during a mycological survey of freshwater hyphomycetes on submerged leaves in southwest China. Based on these morphological features, Zheng et al. (2021) placed this species within Anacraspedodidymum. Anacraspedodidymum is characterized by unbranched and septate [...]